Numbers 5:12 (BSB)

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

From Numbers 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 5:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 5:11-31: We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Num 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Pro 2:17.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 5:12: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... It being an affair which concerned them: if any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him; the sin of adultery, which is a going aside out of the way of virtue and chastity, and a trespass against an husband, a breach of the marriage covenant with him, a defiling his bed, doing...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 5:12: THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY. (Num. 5:11-31) if any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him--This law was given both as a strong discouragement to conjugal infidelity on the part of a wife, and a sufficient protection of her from the consequences of a hasty and groundless suspicion on the part of the husband.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 5:12: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, (e) By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.